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...frustrating about “Together Through Life” is that it simply didn’t need to be recorded. It’s a troublesome sign of what may be to come in the remainder of the man’s studio career, and what has already become of his skippable live act: stripped of any real novel artistic drive, “Together Through Life” seems driven by the bare will to perform.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
Harvard’s Office of Career Services is an excellent asset for students. Whether a student is looking for a summer internship, exploring career opportunities, or finding post-graduation employment, OCS has a wealth of readily accessible resources, including brochures, contacts, career counselors, and programs aimed at providing information about a broad range of career opportunities. However, many students will not use any of these resources. This is because one program, the On-Campus Recruiting Program, overshadows all the rest. OCR has detrimentally and unnecessarily influenced undergraduates’ conceptions of employment opportunities, and OCS needs to do more...
...second effort, OCS should make a point of adding more companies to the e-recruiting website even if they do not hold on-campus interviews. The key is making as broad a range of opportunities as possible accessible from one easy-to-use location. Finally, while there are several career fair events throughout the year, none receives as much publicity or focus as the major career fair in the fall, roughly corresponding to the time when OCR deadlines in consulting and finance are occurring. OCS should to more to highlight additional career fairs throughout the year so that other opportunities...
...students uninterested in finance, the path to an internship or job is more uncertain. Though the Office of Career Services has a database with hundreds of jobs that are not in the financial arena, the onus is still mostly on students to learn about opportunities on their own and go through the application process with less guidance than that which e-recruiting provides for its counterparts in finance. Laudably, the college has developed many programs that focus on helping students obtain jobs in alternative careers, such as public service. This new emphasis is in students’ best interests...
...Beyond merely offering opportunities for students to be employed in the public sector, the college’s emphasis on providing financial incentives for students who choose that career path deserves attention. According to a survey conducted by The Harvard Crimson, two out of every five members of Harvard’s 2008 graduating class headed to a job in business, consulting, or finance. Many of these students were lured to the business world because of the lucrative financial benefits associated with such jobs. Unfortunately, many public-sector jobs require students to sacrifice the opportunity to make a great deal...